Data Types & Type Checking - Ace

Strings in Programming Languages• C and C++:– Implemented as null terminated char arrays.– A library of functions in string.h that provide string operations.– Many operations are inherently unsafe (ex: strcpy).– C++ string class from the standard library is safer.• Java (C# and Ruby):– Primitive via the String class (immutable).– Arrays via the StringBuilder class (mutable, w/ subscripting).• StringBuffer for multithreading• Fortran:– Primitive type.Lecture 0628